Radical Project Management

Project Manager as Facilitator

As introduced earlier, traditional project management was driven by technically oriented project managers. Further, these project managers worked in the traditional hierarchical culture of the broader organization. As a result, key project management activities such as risk management, estimation, costing, and strategy selection were undertaken intuitively (black box project management) and unilaterally by the project manager with little involvement from his or her project team members and with no involvement from the business areas. In many cases, the project manager would meet with senior managers and then tell the team how long the project would take and who was to undertake what tasks.

To successfully plan a ...